Improvement in nursery-chairs



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

ANDREW P. FRESHMAN, OF MARISSA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN NURSERY-CHAI RS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,491, dated December25, 1877 application filed March 12, 1877.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW P. FRESHMAN, of Marissa, in the county of St.Clair and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved OhildsChair, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line w win Fig. 1. Fig. 3 of drawing is a detail view of the guard.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists in the combination of astool and a childsarm-chair, the latter being provided with a double seat, a foldingfoot-rest, and a detachable guard for holding the child in the chair.

In the drawing, A is a stool, in which holes are made for receiving thelegs of the chair B. Blocks on, having notches b, are attached to thefront and rear round of the chair, and extend below the top of the stoolA to receive the bar 0 in their notches.

A hole, d, is made in the bottom of the chair B for nursing purposes,and a cover, 0, is fitted over the seat and hinged at f.

O is a guard for keeping the child in the chair, which consists of thearms g, connected by a bar, 72-, and provided with holes 2', as seen inFig. 3 of the drawing, that are slotted to receive the studs j, thatproject from the edges of the chair-bottom, and are flattened atopposite sides, so that when the arms are placed on the said studs andturn downward, so that the lugs k, formed on the arms, strike thechair-bottom, the guard cannot be removed.

A rod, Z, passes through the front legs of the chair, and upon it thefoot-rest m is pivoted. A cleat, n, is attached to the under side of thefoot-rest, which strikes the legs when the footrest is in a horizontalposition.

The advantages of the chair are obvious. It may be readily convertedinto a low chair and stool, and otherwise fulfills the requirements of achilds chair.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The combination of the chair B, having the notchedblocks a, and the stool A, having the pivoted bar 0, substantially asshown and described.

2. The slotted arms 9, having lugs k, connected by a bar, h, andhavingholes '5, combined with a chairbottom having flattened studs j, asand for the purpose specified.

ANDREW P. FRESHMAN.

Witnesses:

LOUIS P. KnIsNER, T. R. HELBRON.

